Tafseer “Hosn e Tafseer” by Dr. Naseer Ahmad Nasir: A Tafseer on Aestheticism

تفسیر" حسن تفسیر" از ڈاکٹر نصیر احمد ناصر : فلسفہ جمالیات کی حامل تفسیر

Abstract

Thus, the only acceptable tafseer is that which adheres to the following sequence: tafseer of Quran by the Quran, then by the Sunnah, then by the sayings of the sahaabah, then by language, and finally by opinion, as long as it is based on the preceding four methods and does not contradict any of them. Dr. Naseer Ahmad Nasir was a notable Islamic scholar and philosopher from Pakistan, He also wrote numerous books on philosophy, aesthetics, and Islam. Dr. Naseer Ahmad Nasir's important contribution to philosophy was his research on Aesthetics and its foundations in the Quran. Approach to art exemplified by the Aesthetic Movement. Aesthetics is the philosophical study of beauty and taste. It is closely related to the philosophy of art, which is concerned with the nature of art and the concepts in terms of which individual works of art are interpreted and evaluated. To provide more than a general definition of the subject matter of aesthetics is immensely difficult. Indeed, it could be said that self-definition has been the major task of modern aesthetics. We are acquainted with an interesting and puzzling realm of experience: the realm of the beautiful, the ugly, the sublime, and the elegant; of taste, criticism, and fine art; and of contemplation, sensuous enjoyment, and charm. In all these phenomena we believe that similar principles are operative and that similar interests are engaged. If we are mistaken in this impression, we will have to dismiss such ideas as beauty and taste as having only philosophical interest. Alternatively, if our impression is correct and philosophy corroborates it, we will have discovered the basis for philosophical aesthetics. This article seeks to clarify the nature of modern aesthetics and to delineate its underlying principles and concerns. However, the article focuses on aesthetic thought and the development of Dr. Naseer Ahmad Nasir in Tafseer Hosn e Tafseer. Aesthetics is broader in scope than the philosophy of art, which comprises one of its branches. It deals not only with the nature and value of the arts but also with those responses to natural objects that find expression in the language of the beautiful and the ugly. This article will define a study in order to understand such ideas as beauty and taste while writing a Tafseer.